Blood Safety Information System (BSIS)

Executive Summary

Jembi’s Blood Safety Strengthening Program (BSSP) and the development of the Blood Safety Information System (BSIS) is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded program looking to develop an open source information management system to manage information about blood donors and donations in low resource settings, as well as an effective implementation strategy to support the safe and sustainable implementation of the tool in countries. The BSIS software is derived from the work done by Georgia Institute of Technology’s Computing for Good Program (C4G) in the development of the original Vein-2-vein solution.

BSIS Software

The Blood Safety Information System (BSIS) is an open source information system designed to manage donor and blood safety information.

BSSP Implementation

The Blood Safety Strengthening Programme (BSSP) is a selection of implementation and maintenance services offered by Jembi Health Systems.

Community

As technical assistance partners to Blood Services we would encourage you to join our implementers community of practice.

BSIS Software

The effective management of information related to the collection, screening, distribution and use of safe blood products is a critical element for all blood services. The Blood Safety Information System (BSIS) is an open source information system designed to manage donor and blood safety information from the point of donor registration to donation collection, through to laboratory testing, component processing and labelling, storage, and distribution to hospitals and clinics. The BSIS tool is primarily targeted for deployment in resource-limited countries and supports the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT) 3 step certification and accreditation process and recommended best practice.

BSIS is designed to support two core functional areas of a blood service:

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Jembi is currently hosting a demo instance of BSIS and we would like to encourage you to review and engage with the tool to better understand the software in how it can and does work. For a more guided approach to BSIS we recommend the online videos showing a walkthrough of the various aspects of the application. Read More…

The Blood Safety Strengthening Programme (BSSP)

The Blood Safety Information System (BSIS) implementation process takes a whole system approach
to software implementation;
● acknowledging the interconnection between policy, practice and technology,
● focusing on building local capacity to use, manage and maintain BSIS.

The implementation process delivers two key outcomes;
1. BSIS operating effectively and sustainably in operational (day-to-day) use and
2. The blood service self-reliant in terms of first level support for the BSIS system.

Using this holistic approach will effectively and sustainably implement BSIS and support countries in
the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT) Stepwise Accreditation process, as well as
improved blood availability and safety in resource-limited countries.

Jembi’s BSIS implementation process has six work streams; Infrastructure and Hardware, Validation,
BSIS Deployment, Training, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Revision and BSIS Support. These
work streams were designed using the ISBT Guidelines for Validation and Maintaining the
Validation State of Automated Systems in Blood Banking, the AfSBT Stepwise Accreditation process
and lessons learnt from Jembi’s other implementations of digital health solutions. The below
diagram depicts the key recommended steps and scheduling of activities.

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Community

BSIS Users / Blood Service

If you are interested in implementing BSIS in your Blood Service please contact Jembi Health Systems NPC at bsis@jembi.org. We also encourage you to join our implementers community of practice here. If you are an existing BSIS user and looking for system support please contact us on bsis.support@jembi.org

BSIS Implementers

As implementers of BSIS Jembi believes that we have a lot to learn from one another’s experience. These lessons learned can strengthen everyone’s implementations. We encourage you to join our ‘Implementers Community‘ of practice here.

Blood Safety Experts / Technical Assistance (TA) Partners

As Technical Assistance partners to Blood Services we would encourage you to join our ‘Implementers Community‘ of practice here. If you are working with a Blood Service and wanting to explore BSIS as a health information system for implementation please contact us on bsis@jembi.org

Current BSIS Implementations

The BSSP Implementation team is currently engaging with a range of countries who are investigating, planning and are underway with implementations of BSIS. See the links below for updates on each of the current countries: